Étude de la collection Aubert-Buès d’antiquités africaines au musée de Gap : premiers résultats

Abstract

Gathered by Clément Aubert during his activity as the director of the railway company from Bône to Guelma, encompassing 523 ceramic pieces and 50 glass and metal artefacts, the Aubert-Buès collection, stored at the museum of Gap (Hautes-Alpes, France), provides information on the material culture of the border area between Algeria and Tunisia, from Tebessa and Haidra north to Gafsa south. After giving a short background of the collection, this paper presents the first results of the inventory and the integrated archaeological and archaeometrical survey of this documentation, and its contribution to the history and economy of the inland regions of Roman Africa.

Keywords

• museum collection
• ceramic
• archaeometry
• Roman Africa
• inland regions